3. How can you teach students the skills they need to perform higher-order thinking when they create projects? What types of questions, prompts, and scaffolds can you use to encourage students to think deeply and to not just find copy-and-paste answers?


  • asking essential questions that do not have a right or wrong answer just different

  • give them responsibilities during the school year

  • have Blooms questions posted and/or give students a copy to put in a notebook, refer to often

  • model using the higher order thinking as a teacher

  • practice, practice, practice

  • take Bloom's word and have students create their own questions

  • stir up discussion in the classroom--whole class and small group--ex. round robin, handing off a talking stick

  • check off box

    • peer reflections

    • have all used their voice

  • daily journals, blogs/wikis

  • use wait time

  • blog during units